Holiday Decorating with Lace

By Kate Riley • December 10, 2012

Hello hello, how are you? Busy busy with the holiday season right? It’s flying by! I was going through some pictures from last year and realized I never shared a few pictures featured in Emily Henderson’s Holiday Guide in 2011. Emily asked me to come up with something creative for the guide and I was loving the idea of decorating with lace. I had no idea lace would be so big in 2012 when I saw all the fall fashion on display in NYC earlier this year!

Lace is appearing everywhere in fashion again and in so many bold colors. Here’s a peek at the four creative ways to use lace that I shared in the guide last year when decorating during the holidays.

Long strips of larger lace make a great stencil! I secured long pieces to plain wrapping paper with painter’s tape, then dusted it with two light coats of green spray paint to make unique wrapping paper.

Attach it to the base of cake stand to dress up a holiday dessert.

Line the back of your bookcases with a modern gift wrap (this is a Marimekko pattern found at Crate + Barrel) and then run delicate lace along the shelves for a snowy effect.

Hi Kate,
I came over to see what you were doing with lace. I used some lace in my Christmas decorating this year. I got a great idea from your post. I’m going to add some lace to a cake stand! Thanks so much!

I am a huge fan of adding gift-wrap to the back of shelves – their easy, cheap and oh-so pretty – yours is perfect example. I love lace, but have yet to incorporate them in my home decor this year. Thanks for the wonderful ideas!

Hey great idea for a post Jen and Amy! I do have one giant closet where I store aaaaallll the bins! It’s under the stairs and we call it the Christmas closet and we have to move our giant dining room hutch to access it! We make a big deal out of “time to open the Christmas closet!” after Thanksgiving. :)

Oh wow! I just love how those gifts are wrapped. The lace really adds a lot. Thanks for the inspiration. I’m going to try and wrap a few of my gifts like this. Just the extra special ones though because it’s not going to be easy for me!

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